What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.

If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, "God damnnnnn!"

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.